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    What should a guy do?

    Yeah, I haven't been around for a while. I like the changes! Anyways, on to the advice I need. So I'm dating this girl for the past 2 years. She's really nice but is also really dependent. She's living at my mother's right now because she doesn't "feel free" living with her parents (mind...
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    Tom is soooo drunk right now!

    Yeah, I haven't posted in a while, but I just had to do this one. At about 2:30 AM CST Mr. Tom gave me a call: Tom: Hey, Jerry Me: Hey, Tom...you're drunk! Tom: Hahaha! Yeah. Guess where I am. Me: Um...I don't know. Duluth? Tom: No. Me: Um...California? Tom: No. Me...
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    Satellite 2415-S205 CDR/DVD-ROM failure

    Anyone have any suggestions? Despite the media I put in the cdrom it starts to spin up, then down, then repeats until I eject it. It'll never mount to my filesystem. I'm considering one of 3 things (feel free to add or refute them): 1) The lens needs to be cleaned from dust (not spinning up...
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    Congratulations to Me

    To congratulate myself for sticking to something longer than a few days (e.g. hitting 100 posts) I dedicate this thread to nothing but me. So if anyone has a nice (or really cool but really mean) comment to make about how big of a damn hippie I am, I want to hear it!
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    I have a junk IBM drive

    I've got 2 45 GB IBM hard drives and a few months ago I thought my data drive was dying...unfortunatly it turned out to be my system drive with my home directory and everything else that makes me who I am. So I bought a seagate to replace it. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to...
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    [possible] Suckers!

    Correct me if I'm wrong (which I may very well be), but *when* we go to war our border get shut down, right? So what happens to the US citizens who are spring breaking in Mazatlan, Amsterdam, etc?
  7. octal

    Is this Jesus?

    :biker: looks like he's wearing sunglasses, to me!
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    Modding the Linksys WPC11 v3

    I was wondering if any of the wardrivers out there have modded a linksys wpc11 v3 card. I found a few sites with pictures, but no instructions (other than that it's really hard) or insight into the parts that I need to buy. If you know anything I'd really appreciate some help! :)
  9. octal

    Things that are annoying.

    What bothers you the most? What bothers me the most is when my girlfriend successfully ditches me on the only night during the week I can see her. :D
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    George W. Bush Inspirational Quote of the Day

    "The key to foreign policy is to rely on reliance." George W. Bush November 1, 2000 Quoted from the Washington Post. www.bushcalendar.com
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    Terrorist Donuts

    "When you look at obesity, what I call the terror within, a threat that is every bit as real to America as the weapons of mass destruction, obesity as an epidemic is ... growing. If we don't do anything about it, we will have a morbidly obese, dysfunctional population that we cannot afford to...
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    9/11 A Hoax?

    I didn't check to see if this was already posted. Still, it's kind of interesting. http://internetgossip.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=953&mode=&order=0
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    George W. Bush Quote of the Weekend

    "I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong." George W. Bush March 15, 2000 The presidential candidate referring to his proposed economic plan -- as reported in the New York Times. (www.bushcalendar.com)
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    Thread ID's

    So I'm implementing the Fork system call in the emulated OS Nachos. User threads, of course, are made from the same class as kernel threads. So in implementing Fork I have to assign a unique thread id to newly created threads. Does anyone have any insight into where I should record the id? I...
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